If the language stayed the way it was, it would be like a pressed flower in a book or, as I say, I think it would be like some inflatable doll rather than a person. It's never going to. Newsletter: That is the most random thing. GEACONE-CRUZ: It describes this feeling so perfectly in such a wonderfully packaged, encapsulated way. Hidden Brain explores the unconscious patterns that drive human behavior and questions that lie at the heart of our complex and changing world. Happiness 2.0: The Only Way Out Is Through. So you can't see time. What techniques did that person use to persuade you? But can you imagine someone without imagining their gender? They often feel angry about it, and you think this anger is actually telling. You're also not going to do algebra. It's natural to want to run away from difficult emotions such as grief, anger and fear. In The Air We Breathe : NPR So that's an example of how languages and cultures construct how we use space to organize time, to organize this very abstract thing that's otherwise kind of hard to get our hands on and think about. Later things are on the right. We talk with psychologist Iris Mauss, who explains why happiness can seem more el, When we want something very badly, it can be hard to see warning signs that might be obvious to other people. Because it was. When we come back, we dig further into the way that gender works in different languages and the pervasive effects that words can play in our lives. VEDANTAM: There are phrases in every language that are deeply evocative and often, untranslatable. VEDANTAM: The moment she heard it, Jennifer realized mendokusai was incredibly useful. We're speaking today with cognitive science professor Lera Boroditsky about language. This is HIDDEN BRAIN. So when I ask you to, say, imagine a man walking down the street, well, in your imagery, you're going to have some details completed and some will be left out. (SOUNDBITE OF TV SHOW, "PARKS AND RECREATION"). * Data source: directly measured on Listen Notes. It is the very fabric, the very core of your experience. How to Really Know Another Person - Transcripts So you might say, there's an ant on your northwest leg. And so for example, if the word chair is masculine in your language, why is that? BORODITSKY: The way to say my name properly in Russian is (speaking foreign language), so I don't make people say that. And, of course, you always have to wonder, well, could it be that speakers of these different languages are actually seeing different kinds of bridges? Sociologist Lisa Wade believes the pervasive hookup culture on campuses today is different from that faced by previous generations. So new words are as likely to evolve as old ones. VEDANTAM: If you're bilingual or you're learning a new language, you get what Jennifer, experienced - the joy of discovering a phrase that helps you perfectly encapsulate a. feeling or an experience. And the answer should be, north, northeast in the far distance; how about you? This week, in the final installment of our Happiness 2.0 series, psychologist Dacher Keltner describes what happens when we stop to savor the beauty in nature, art, or simply the moral courage of those around us. It's too high. And you can even teach people to have a little bit of fun with the artifice. People who breathe too much put their bodies in a hypoxic state, with not enough oxygen to the brain How breath moves in the body: air comes in through the nose and mouth; the larynx (rigid tube to avoid closing) brings air from the nose and mouth to the lungs Lungs can expand and contract to bring in or expel air It's not something that you typically go out trying to do intentionally. In the final episode of our "Mind Reading 2.0" series, we bring back one of our favorite conversations, with linguist Deborah Tannen. Long before she began researching languages as a professor, foreign languages loomed large in her life. But I don't think that it's always clear to us that language has to change in that things are going to come in that we're going to hear as intrusions or as irritating or as mistakes, despite the fact that that's how you get from, say, old Persian to modern Persian. But it's a lovely example of how language can guide you to discover something about the world that might take you longer to discover if you didn't have that information in language. 437 Episodes Produced by Hidden Brain, Shankar Vedantam Website. 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And if the word bridge is masculine in your language, you're more likely to say that bridges are strong and long and towering - these kind of more stereotypically masculine words. You know, there's no left leg or right leg. And that is an example of a simple feature of language - number words - acting as a transformative stepping stone to a whole domain of knowledge. It takes, GEACONE-CRUZ: It's this phrase that describes something between I can't be, bothered or I don't want to do it or I recognize the incredible effort that goes into. And this is NPR. So they've compared gender equality, gender parity norms from the World Health Organization, which ranks countries on how equal access to education, how equal pay is, how equal representation in government is across the genders. If you're like most people, you probably abandoned those resolutions within a few weeks. VEDANTAM: One of the ultimate messages I took from your work is that, you know, we can choose to have languages that are alive or languages that are dead. Writing has come along relatively recently. We always knew that certain species of animals had abilities to orient that we thought were better than human, and we always had some biological excuse for why we couldn't do it. Purpose can also boost our health and longevity. Hidden Brain: You 2.0: Cultivating Your Purpose on Apple Podcasts 51 min You 2.0: Cultivating Your Purpose Hidden Brain Social Sciences Having a sense of purpose can be a buffer against the challenges we all face at various stages of life. And in fact, speakers of languages like this have been shown to orient extremely well - much better than we used to think humans could. And as soon as I saw that happen, I thought, oh, this makes it so much easier. And I can't help surmising that part of it is that the educated American has been taught and often well that you're not supposed to look down on people because of gender, because of race, because of ability. This week, we kick off a month-long series we're calling Happiness 2.0. But actually, that's exactly how people in those communities come to stay oriented - is that they learn it, (laughter) right? In The Air We Breathe . They shape our place in it. UNIDENTIFIED PERSON #4: (Speaking foreign language). It should be thought of as fun. So even if I'm speaking English, the distinctions that I've learned in speaking Russian, for example, are still active in my mind to some extent, but they're more active if I'm actually speaking Russian. BORODITSKY: Yeah, that's true. But that can blind us to a very simple source of joy thats all around us. And we teach them, for example, to say that bridges and apples and all kinds of other things have the same prefix as women. BORODITSKY: Well, I think it's a terrible tragedy. So LOL starts out as meaning hardy-har-har (ph), but then it becomes something more abstract. UNIDENTIFIED PERSON #8: (Speaking Italian). If it is the first time you login, a new account will be created automatically. The dictionary says both uses are correct. Only a couple hundred languages - or if you want to be conservative about it, a hundred languages - are written in any real way and then there are 6,800 others. Of course that's how you BORODITSKY: And so what was remarkable for me was that my brain figured out a really good solution to the problem after a week of trying, right? VEDANTAM: Time is another concept that is also central to the way we see and describe the world. HIDDEN BRAIN < Lost in Translation: January 29, 20189:00 PM ET VEDANTAM: Well, that's kind of you, Lera. That is utterly arbitrary that those little slits in American society look elderly, but for various chance reasons, that's what those slits came to mean, so I started wearing flat-fronted pants. We'll begin with police shootings of unarmed Black men. Many of us believe that hard work and persistence are the key to achieving our goals. According to neuroscientists who study laughter, it turns out that chuckles and giggles often aren't a response to humorthey're a response to people. And if that is true, then the educated person can look down on people who say Billy and me went to the store or who are using literally, quote, unquote, "wrong" and condemn them in the kinds of terms that once were ordinary for condemning black people or women or what have you. Transcript - How language shapes the way we think by Lera Boroditsky.docx, The Singapore Quality Award requires organisations to show outstanding results, The following lots of Commodity Z were available for sale during the year, b The authors identify 5 types of misinformation in the abstract but discuss 7, 17 Chow N Asian value and aged care Geriatr Gerontol Int 20044521 5 18 Chow NWS, Writing Results and Discussion Example.docx, A 6 month old infant weighing 15 lb is admitted with a diagnosis of dehydration, ng_Question_-_Assessment_1_-_Proposing_Evidence-Based_Change.doc, The Social Security checks the Government sends to grandmothers are considered A, 03 If a covered member participates on the clients attest engagement or is an, AURETR143 Student Assessment - Theory v1.1.docx. VEDANTAM: So all this raises a really interesting question. Thank you for helping to keep the podcast database up to date. You know, I was trying to stay oriented because people were treating me like I was pretty stupid for not being oriented, and that hurt. Languages are not just tools. This week, we kick off a month-long series we're calling Happiness 2.0. Our transcripts are provided by various partners and may contain errors or deviate slightly from the audio. MCWHORTER: Yes, that's exactly true. They're more likely to see through this little game that language has played on them. Assessing the Seeds of Relationship Decay: Using Implicit Evaluations to Detect the Early Stages of Disillusionment, by Soonhee Lee, Ronald D. Rogge, and Harry T. Reis, Psychological Science, 2010. So the way you say hi in Kuuk Thaayorre is to say, which way are you heading? ROB LOWE: (As Chris Traeger) Dr. Harris, you are literally the meanest person I have ever met. And very competent adults of our culture can't do that. Read the episode transcript. So there are some differences that are as big as you can possibly measure. They believe that their language reflects the true structure of the world. It's as if you saw a person - I'm not going to say at 4 because then the person is growing up, and if I use that analogy then it seems like I'm saying that language grows up or it moves toward something or it develops. It is a great, free way to engage the podcast community and increase the visibility of your podcasts. Hidden Brain - Transcripts Hidden Brain - Transcripts Subscribe 435 episodes Share Shankar Vedantam uses science and storytelling to reveal the unconscious patterns that drive human behavior, shape our choices and direct our relationships. Our team includes Laura Kwerel, Adhiti Bandlamudi and our supervising producer Tara Boyle. 5.3 Misbehaving Hidden Brain NPR - HOURLY NEWS DONATE < Predictably No matter how hard you try to feel happier, you end up back where you started. Evaluating Changes in Motivation, Values, and Well-being, by Kennon M. Sheldon and Lawrence S. 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In this episode, we explore how long-term relationships have changed over time and whether we might be able to improve marriage by asking less of it. Whereas speakers of a language like Spanish might not be quite as good at remembering who did it when it's an accident, but they're better at remembering that it was an accident. If you can speak more than one language, does this mean that you're also simultaneously and constantly shifting in your mind between different worldviews? All rights reserved. That was somehow a dad's fashion, and that I should start wearing flat-fronted pants. The fact is that language change can always go in one of many directions, there's a chance element to it. And, I mean, just in terms of even sounds changing and the way that you put words together changing bit by bit, and there's never been a language that didn't do that. As someone who works in media, I often find that people who can write well are often people who know how to think well, so I often equate clarity of writing with clarity of thought. VEDANTAM: So I find that I'm often directionally and navigationally challenged when I'm driving around, and I often get my east-west mixed up with my left-right for reasons I have never been able to fathom. But what if it's not even about lust? How so? What Do You Do When Things Go Right? Imagine you meet somebody, they're 39 and you take their picture. How do you balance the imperative of teaching correct usage? That is exactly why you should say fewer books instead of less books in some situations and, yes, Billy and I went to the store rather than the perfectly natural Billy and me went to the store. And they have correlated this with gender features in the language, just like the ones you were talking about. Follow on Apple, Google or Spotify. Many of us believe that hard work and persistence are the key to achieving our goals. The phrase brings an entire world with it - its context, its flavor, its culture. Hidden Brain. You would give a different description to mark that it was not intentional. Accuracy and availability may vary. UNIDENTIFIED PERSON #2: (Speaking foreign language). How does that sound now? Marcus Butt/Getty Images/Ikon Images Hidden Brain Why Nobody Feels Rich by Shankar Vedantam , Parth Shah , Tara Boyle , Rhaina Cohen September 14, 2020 If you've ever flown in economy class. Opening scene of Lady Bird Flight attendant Steven Slater slides from a plane after quitting Transcript Podcast: Subscribe to the Hidden Brain Podcast on your favorite podcast player so you never miss an episode. Lera, thank you so much for joining me on HIDDEN BRAIN today. FEB 27, 2023; Happiness 2.0: The Reset Button . VEDANTAM: This episode of HIDDEN BRAIN was produced by Rhaina Cohen, Maggie Penman and Thomas Lu with help from Renee Klahr, Jenny Schmidt, Parth Shah and Chloe Connelly. They're more likely to say, well, it's a formal property of the language. If you, grew up speaking a language other than English, you probably reach for words in your. Our transcripts are provided by various partners and may contain errors or deviate slightly from the audio. Copyright Hidden Brain Media | Privacy Policy, Read the latest from the Hidden Brain Newsletter. Going the Distance on the Pacific Crest Trail: The Vital Role of Identified Motivation, by Kennon M. Sheldon, Motivation Science, 2020. No matter how hard you try to feel happier, you end up back where you started. VEDANTAM: If languages are shaped by the way people see the world, but they also shape how people see the world, what does this mean for people who are bilingual? And I did that. I'm Shankar Vedantam. . If you're bilingual or multilingual, you may have noticed that different languages make you stretch in different ways. Imagine this. It turns out, as you point out, that in common usage, literally literally means the opposite of literally. So what happens is that once literally comes to feel like it means really, people start using it in figurative constructions such as I was literally dying of thirst. And so what that means is if someone was sitting facing south, they would lay out the story from left to right. But somehow they've managed, not just by randomly bumping into each other. Physicist Richard Feynman once said, "The first principle is that you must not fool yourself, and you are the easiest person to fool." One way we fool ourselves is by imagining we know more than we do; we think we are experts. Hidden Brain Hidden Brain, Shankar Vedantam Subscribe Visit website Shankar Vedantam uses science and storytelling to reveal the unconscious patterns that drive human behavior, shape our. Take the word bridge - if it's feminine in your language, you're more likely to say that bridges are beautiful and elegant. This week, in the second installment of our Happiness 2.0 series, psychologist Todd Kashdan looks at the relationship between distress and happiness, and how to keep difficult emotions from sabotaging our wellbeing. If you're studying a new language, you might discover these phrases not. Hidden Brain: The Easiest Person to Fool on Apple Podcasts Those are quirks of grammar literally in stone. Hidden Brain: You 2.0: Cultivating Your Purpose on Apple Podcasts GEACONE-CRUZ: It's a Sunday afternoon, and it's raining outside.